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Discover the new rules of walking to increase your health, longevity, and overall wellbeing—from two go-to experts. Did you know… Your risk of falls and overall longevity can be measured by your foot health Your walking speed can predict your overall health status and risk of early death...

One man’s journey from rock bottom to redemption—2,200 miles, one step at a time. At 27, the author had lost everything: his marriage, his sense of purpose, his belief in himself. Living in a camper, barely scraping by on minimum wage, he felt like a failure. But when he discovered the Appalachian Trail—a 2,200-mile footpath stretching from Georgia to Maine—he made a decision that would change everything: he was going to walk it. All of it. This isn’t a gear list or a guidebook. It’s the raw, often funny, sometimes painful story of one man’s fight to reclaim his life through ...

New York Times bestselling author Isaac Fitzgerald sets off into the heart of America, following the path of the legendary Johnny Appleseed on an epic journey that both takes him far from home and brings him closer to it. “Rollicking, heartfelt. . . . Made me feel the kind of wonder and hope...

A Walk in the Wood is both inspiring and instructive. Simple stories with clearly stated goals and easy-to-follow exercises provide all the tools you'll need to take the first step, or continue on your journey, toward a quieter and calmer way of living.

Despite her success setting a self-supported Fastest Known Time record on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2013, Heather “Anish” Anderson still had such deep-seated insecurities that she became convinced her feat had been a fluke. So two years later she set out again, this time hiking through mud, rocks, and mountain blazes to crush her constant self-doubt and seek the true source of her strength and purpose. The 2,189 miles of the Appalachian Trail, from Maine to Georgia, did not make it easy.

"This book reminds and inspires us to search for the wildness that lives inside of us." --Lori Oliver-Tierney, author, Trudge: A Midlife Crisis on the John Muir Trail "I absolutely loved reading this book." --Amazon reader "This book impressed and inspired me." --Amazon reader Nearing age 70, with five long-distance European hikes in the bag, Reg is finally ready to tackle one of the most iconic treks the United States offers. Or is he? A self-proclaimed slackpacker who enjoys a shower, cold beer, and warm bed at the end of each dusty day, Reg throws caution aside, signing on with a packing...

A must-have audiobook for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural world, in How to Read Water, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares knowledge, skills, tips and useful observations to help you enjoy the landscape around you. From wild swimming in Sussex to wayfinding off Oman, via the icy mysteries of the Arctic, Tristan Gooley draws on his own pioneering journeys to reveal the secrets of ponds, puddles, rivers, oceans and more to show us all the skills we need to read the water around us.

"I never set out to hike 10,000 miles. It just sort of happened over the course of a decade." And so goes Lawton Grinter's compelling collection of short stories that have been over ten years and 10,000 trail miles in the making. I Hike brings the reader trailside with blissful moments on the highest mountain ridges to the mental lows of mosquito hell and into some peculiar situations that even seasoned hikers may find unbelievable.

It is a gentle art; know how to tramp and you know how to live. Know how to meet your fellow wanderer, how to be passive to the beauty of nature and how to be active to its wildness and its rigour. The adventure is not the getting there, it’s the ‘on-the-way’. It is not the expected, it is the surprise.

In 36 thrilling days, Melanie Radzicki McManus hiked 1,100 miles around Wisconsin, landing her in the elite group of Ice Age Trail thru-hikers known as the Thousand-Milers. In prose that's alternately harrowing and humorous, Thousand-Miler takes you with her through Wisconsin's forests, prairies, wetlands, and farms, past the geologic wonders carved by long-ago glaciers, and into the neighborhood bars and gathering places of far-flung small towns.

One morning, Libby DeLana left her New England home to go for a walk. She did the same thing the next day, and the next. It became a daily habit that has culminated in her walking the equivalent of the earth's circumference. She walked through some major life milestones – and into her second...

Bug In - Bug Out The Ultimate 3-in-1 Disaster Preparedness Manual: 500+ Pages of Room-by-Room Home Defense, Vehicle Evacuation, and Foot Bug-Out Survival Should You Stay or Should You Go? When emergency strikes, you've got three options: stay home, drive out, or walk. This massive 500+ page survival guide covers all three in the exact order you'll actually need them. THE PREPARED HOME: Your Complete Bug-In Guide Your home is your castle. Time to act like it. This room-by-room emergency preparedness manual walks you through securing every entry point, stocking up smart, and turning your ...

Are you ready to revolutionize your daily stroll? Walking Your Way to Vitality introduces a fresh perspective on the world's most accessible form of exercise. Drawing from decades of experience in East Asian medicine and healthcare, the authors present six unique walking styles rooted in the time-honored concepts of qi, prana, tai chi, chi gong, and yoga.

What would the perfect Iceland road trip look like for you? If you’re a couple seeking adventure packed with cultural experience, exploring the land of fire and ice by road is perfect for you. Drive along winding roads, surrounded by towering volcanoes, cascading waterfalls, and sparkling glaciers. Taste traditional Icelandic cuisines, explore charming villages, and absorb the rich culture and traditions of the locals along the way. Perhaps even catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights….

At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen". He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide. In the year that followed, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt.

Regular walking allows your body to burn more calories, boosting your weight loss and bringing with it a whole host of extra benefits—to both physical and emotional health. In fact, if you were to gradually build just 3 hours of walking into your week, you could lose up to 25 percent more body weight in 12 weeks than you would by dieting alone. There couldn’t be a more straightforward way to lose weight and build fitness. And the beauty is you can tailor it to suit your lifestyle irrespective of age, gender, fitness, wealth, or social positioning.

Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' - he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. Stumbling upon converted asylums, industrial and retail parks, ring-fenced government institutions and lost villages, Sinclair discovers a Britain of the fringes, a landscape consumed by developers. London Orbital charts this extraordinary trek and round trip of the soul, revealing the country as you've never seen it before.

Nobody wakes up in the morning and decides to shut down their senses and stumble through each day in an oblivious bubble, and yet some people end up having much richer experiences than others. In this guidebook, natural navigator Tristan Gooley strives to reawaken our senses to help us understand and deepen our personal experience of nature. His message is to connect - however we can and to whatever draws us in.

The fourth book in the bestselling Mindfulness Essentials series, a back-to-basics collection from world-renowned Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh that introduces everyone to the essentials of mindfulness practice.

Born to Walk will help reshape fitness culture to reject flawed and dated "no pain, no gain" ideals, and replace them with a simple, accessible, sustainable program to increase general everyday movement, improve aerobic conditioning the right way, avoid the risks of injury and burnout associated with running, and promote a healthy, happy, energetic, long life–one step at a time.